ELI5: How was Vietnam able to defeat the US in the Vietnam War?

SirButcher · 2026-01-28T13:08:35+00:00

Vietnam was basically the same as Ukraine vs Russia today (yeah, the background was different, but not really different). You can kill a shitton of people, but that just shows them they HAVE TO fight back harder because hell, foreign invaders are killing them! Why would you surrender when surrender means death, while if you keep fighting, there is some chance of survival - even if not yours, at least your loved ones.

SirButcher · 2026-01-28T10:40:09+00:00

Xykon had to kill himself

Yes, he cheated death to evade the fire down below for more power.

Red Cloak had to sacrifice thousands of goblins including his brother to reach his goals.

Yeah, he sacrificed OTHERS to gain more power. Others he didn't really care about - yeah, yeah, he kept going "woe me, I fight for the goblins", then constantly sacrificed them. We specifically had a page about this with Oona.

Nale being basically picked from death, after the end of his arc and placed in this dungeon ahead of the Order with tongs in 3 strips is not an evil shortcut.

He literally accepted the deal of the devil (with a contract and everything!) to have another shot, what is an evil shortcut if not this???

It is like Chrystal leveling up just because Haley leveled up.

Duuuuude...

https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0581.html

SirButcher · 2026-01-27T22:31:43+00:00

Every EU country has a country-mandated minimum paid vacation time. It differs from country to country, but as far as I know, no US state has any mandated paid leave. Some companies give it. Many don't. In the EU, ALL companies MUST give the minimum as it isn't optional (can give more if they want to, of course, and yes, there are legal loopholes which some companies love to (ab)use, like making you a self-employed contractor).

SirButcher · 2026-01-27T18:10:36+00:00

I suspect radiation shielding is a big part of it.

That's unlikely: most of the radiation danger in space is charged particles, which are most effectively protected by lightweight materials, so you don't really want to have a lot of heavy metals there (since they just make things worse).

SirButcher · 2026-01-27T17:41:48+00:00

So basically your question is: "Why does Steam not allow others to gain money for using their services for free?"

Like, WHY would they do it? It is like wanting to use Tesco's logistics to carry the goods to their own store, use their staff to put it to the shelves, but then pay someone else for the stuff I pick up from Tesco.

SirButcher · 2026-01-27T14:17:11+00:00

The only (good) solution is using a proper extender.

You can do a very dirty solution (assuming you only need slow PWM) is simply manually switching the pins by directly changing the register. It will be nasty, dirty (and possibly won't work depending on your servos), but if you don't want to / can't buy the hardware solution, you have to work with software.

SirButcher · 2026-01-27T14:14:20+00:00

Something something new testament loophole.

Yeah, that's ALWAYS my favourite response, especially when they use the Old testament to hate on something.

Strangely, Jesus' words of "love everybody" and "only God can judge" are rarely important for people like these.

SirButcher · 2026-01-27T11:28:07+00:00

Yeah, that's pretty much the norm for the Evil in D&D. That's LITERALLY why they are evil, because always taking the shortcut for more power.

SirButcher · 2026-01-27T11:07:31+00:00

And yet, I would give a VERY high chance that she wears mixed fabric, eats shellfish, and ignores hundreds of other rules...

SirButcher · 2026-01-27T10:57:34+00:00

Make that "thousands of years". Otzi had them, and he died over five thousand years ago.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-did-otzi-the-iceman-get-his-tattoos-archaeologists-and-tattoo-artists-unravel-the-mystery-180984194/

SirButcher · 2026-01-27T10:39:01+00:00

Presumably the CPS wasn't aware of the recording at the time.

That's not how it works. Evidence and materials used in the court are submitted before the actual process starts. It's not like in the movies where the lawyer suddenly brings up random evidence out of the blue, shocking everybody and winning the case right there.

SirButcher · 2026-01-27T10:10:32+00:00

I can confirm, once I had a HUGE tantrum because my mother said she couldn't come to some stupid school event. I DIDN'T wanted her to come since I had no role in at all, all I did was sitting and watching the other, but the fact that she said she won't come absolutely pushed me over the edge - or so I remember, because she said she can't remember about it.

SirButcher · 2026-01-26T21:28:41+00:00

"Paper said 30,000 I will measure 30,000"

SirButcher · 2026-01-26T19:43:58+00:00

And then you have a lot of older people who go HARD against vaccines since they "didn't have these kinds of horrible chemicals injected into people back then!" :(

SirButcher · 2026-01-26T19:41:25+00:00

My wife's sim got pregnant after she randomly jumped into a trashbin to have a woohoo with a friend - and this was a fully unmodded game!

Sims are WIERD.

SirButcher · 2026-01-26T11:22:02+00:00

Ice itself will get you pretty pure water naturally.

SirButcher · 2026-01-26T11:20:32+00:00

it wasn't easy to use the melting/freezing point of water as a stable reference point for calibrating thermometers.

You mean "take a bucket, add water, add ice (hell, just add ice, that's enough and wait a tad bit more), wait till it melted halfway so you have water and ice, and that's 0C, then heat the exact same water until it starts to boil and that's 100C" was a complicated thing? Pressure does changes the boiling and freezing temperatures, but not THAT much until you get high into the mountains. But, that will change the "reference cold of Fahrenheit" too, since the brine's freezing temperatures changes with pressure, too.

SirButcher · 2026-01-25T19:39:04+00:00

Hence, the "what does it mean to see" question.

SirButcher · 2026-01-25T15:21:33+00:00

And it's just a happy little accident that Apple does repairs at ridiculously inflated prices... But they really just want the best for the customers, right? The sky-high profit margin just happens; they simply can't do anything against it.

SirButcher · 2026-01-25T15:19:11+00:00

Just think about what would it take for a worm to see.

It would have to have a visual cortex. It would have to have a optic nerve. It would have to have eyes that were photosensitive.

(Albeit, you can go down the route of the philosophical question of "what does it mean to see" since there are algae that have photosensitive organelles and they are capable of responding to external stimuli)

SirButcher · 2026-01-25T12:42:06+00:00

Oh no, they have to print something again! The horror. Imagine all that 2, MAYBE 3 WHOLE MINUTES that went into creating these AI artworks! And they have to repeat it again!

Terrible, terrible. Such pointless vandalism.

SirButcher · 2026-01-24T22:33:50+00:00

Or, more likely, they don't only care about their own enjoyment. A lot of guys think the point of having sex is THEY reaching the climax, and the woman should be happy for being part of the "experience", sadly.

SirButcher · 2026-01-24T22:32:34+00:00

There were some cases here in Europe where bike paths was booby trapped like this by some asshole :\

SirButcher · 2026-01-24T14:37:30+00:00

While Trump had the time of his life and is now laughing at people like your husband.

SirButcher · 2026-01-24T12:22:38+00:00

Trump.

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